Jonas Vingegaard is still in hospital in Vitoria, south of Bilbao, after a fall on the Tour of the Basque Country. The 27-year-old suffered several fractured ribs and a collarbone.
His chances of participating in the Tour de France this summer are dwindling day by day, even if his Visma-Lease a Bike team indicated on Tuesday that the Dane had “successful” collarbone surgery. “We just haven't had the chance yet. Neither with him, nor with his wife,. nor with the team. I don’t know how it’s possible, but maybe it had to be that way,” whispers Claus Vedegaard. The winner of the 2022 and 2023 Tour deFrance is currently hospitalized after the very violent collective fall in which he was caught during the Tour. The Dane also suffered from a pneumothorax and a pulmonary contusion, an accumulation of injuries which bruised his body.